Tag: intellect
-
The Soul of Education, Part 7: The Thomistic Synthesis-Soul as Form and Spirit
The Great Conversation regarding the nature of the human person finds a singular climax in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). Known as the Doctor Angelicus, Aquinas was a Dominican friar whose life’s work involved reconciling the newly rediscovered Aristotelian corpus with the established Augustinian theological tradition. Born into a noble family in Italy,…